| Apr 2, 2014 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, William A. Collins and I weigh in with some good news and bad news about the news business while Andrew Korfhage calls on Apple to do something about the cancerous chemicals poisoning the Chinese workers making iPhones and other gadgets....
| Apr 1, 2014 | Food / FarmingAh, progress. In the 2012 elections, Republicans cast themselves as budget-balancers by promising to whack welfare programs for the poor, snarling that such people are “takers” and “moochers.” Such vindictive sourness didn’t play too well...
| Mar 27, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyHobby Lobby’s position is really quite dubious: Using God to get into your uterus. It’s needling its way into women’s health. It’s crafting strategies religiously stealth. The company’s lawyers tell SCOTUS this amounts to abortion, And...
| Mar 26, 2014 | Environment / HealthSaid Boehner, “What the Hell is this, a joke?” Said Obama, “Oh no, not again with this bloke.” The ACA sign-up deadline’s extended To benefit millions as it was intended. The website snafu caused such delays, “We need the...
| | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, Brett Fleishman writes about how Shell and ExxonMobil recently tossed some logs into the fossil-fuel divestment fire and Jill Richardson explains what’s wrong with time-saving coffee pods. Do you want to make sure you don’t miss the...